January 1999
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Features
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Church Search
Dallas is not the place. NO, THAT’S HIGHLAND PARK Hon-Ming Chen, the founder of God’s Salvation Church in Taiwan, and 140 of his followers moved to the Dallas suburb of Garland because they thought it was the site of the original Garden of Eden and it sounded like “God’s Land.” WHICH STANDS FOR “UNBELIEVABLE, FATUOUS, …
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Slur Stir
They stand politically corrected. WHERE’S THAT TIGER WHEN YOU NEED HIM? During a Galveston City Council meeting, the Reverend James Thomas, an African American member of the council, referred to African Americans who had unsuccessfully challenged his reelection as “Sambos.” HOW SHORTSIGHTED OF HER The City of Houston’s affirmative action director, Lenoria Walker, was forced …
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Bush Push
They’re big, by George. NOW IT’S REALLY EASY TO READ HIS LIPS Houston sculptor David Adickes is creating twenty-foot-tall busts of George Bush and the forty other U.S. presidents for a patriotic theme park he hopes to open this year in Virginia. AW, HE’S JUST BEATING AROUND THE BUSH At a National Governors’ Association seminar …
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Not Great In ’98
“C” why it was a bad year. CRUSHED. Garry Mauro suffered the worst defeat of any Democratic gubernatorial nominee in Texas history, losing to George W. Bush by 1.4 million votes and getting just 31 percent of the vote. CATAPULTED. Tommy Lee Jones was banged up when he was thrown from his horse during a …
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The Six-Billion-Dollar Men
How to spend a huge budget surplus will be the defining issue of the coming legislative session. It will also determine the political futures of George W. Bush, Rick Perry, and Pete Laney.
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You Can’t Go Home Again
Folk singer Nanci Griffith thinks the Texas media have been mistreating her. The way she’s fighting back guarantees her trouble with the press isn’t going away.
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Deep Dish
Which Hollywood legend is “the bitch of all time”? Which comedienne’s daughter was a dope addict by age fourteen and came to Houston to get unhooked? Texas’ top gossips tell all.
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Teenage Wasteland
With its optimistically broad streets and oversized cantilevered homes, Plano is the suburban ideal taken to its extreme, and its exaggerated scale often gives rise to exaggerated problems. Heroin addiction is only the latest.
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Err Ware
The Bum Steer Gift Guide. THE RON PAUL FAMILY COOKBOOK, compiled by the family of the Surfside congressman, which contains recipes such as Zippy Olive-Beef Spread and a clip-and-mail card soliciting donations to his reelection campaign (free to donors). LEAVE BILL CLINTON ALONE, a compact disc from Austin soul singer Larry Shannon Hargrove ($19.95). “HUMOR …
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Columns
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Wild Kingdom
Tucked away near tiny Murchison, Black Beauty Ranch is a refuge for injured, abused, or abandoned animals—even after the death of its guiding spirit, Cleveland Amory.
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News Makers
Coming January 1 to a small screen near you: A round-the-clock, Texas-specific, CNN-style cable channel. Its creators will be watching. Will you?
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Not Black and White
Fifteen years ago, in a PBS documentary, Bill Moyers declared that the East Texas town of Marshall was actually two towns divided by race. To some extent, it still is.
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Pop Art
How 7 UP is trying to win back its share of the soft drink market, one commercial at a time.
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The Games Game
Houston and Dallas go for the gold.
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Reporter
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Sexual Congress
Who says there is nothing funny about the Monica Lewinsky matter?
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Star Woes
Chris Roberts shoots for a new set of stars.
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CD and Book Reviews
LEON RAUSCH If Cindy Walker had never produced another song besides “You Don’t Know Me,” her stature would be assured among country and pop writers. But the Mexia woman has written about four hundred others, including “Bubbles in My Beer” (Bob Wills) and “Two Glasses, Joe” (Ernest Tubb). All three are among the twenty Walker …
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scalpers.gov
Internet profiteers target George W. Bush.
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Beef 101
An A&M extension class gets beefy.
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CompuSoap
An Austin soap opera goes online.
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Crime Pays
Crime victims follow the money.
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Sign of the Times
The New York Times takes on Texas—again.
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Dianne Hardy-Garcia
DIANNE HARDY-GARCIA is so earnest in conversation that you might mistake her for a political novice. Don’t. As the executive director of the Lesbian and Gay Rights Lobby of Texas for the past five years, the 33-year-old San Antonio native has had one of the most challenging jobs in a famously conservative state, and judging …
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Michael Martin Murphey
When I was seventeen, I didn’t have a band; I pretty much performed either by myself or with a bass player. I often played at a coffeehouse I started called the Windjammer. It was down on McKinney Avenue in Dallas, which was a really rough neighborhood at the time. One night while I was onstage, …
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Web
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Mashed Potatoes
2 pounds russet or Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and quartered 2 teaspoons puréed chipotles (canned or rehydrated dried chiles) 1/2 cup half-and-half or cream (restaurant uses whipping cream) 2 tablespoons unsalted butter kosher or sea salt and coarsely ground pepper to taste 2 tablespoons chopped fresh herbs such as parsley, tarragon, and oregano Preheat oven …
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Braised Lamb Shank and Rabbit
Lamb and Rabbit 4 small, lean lamb shanks, trimmed of visible fat 4 rabbit hind legs kosher or sea salt and coarsely ground pepper to taste 3/4 cup olive oil 1 large onion, peeled and coarsely chopped 4 medium carrots, peeled and coarsely chopped 2 celery stalks, coarsely chopped 3 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped …
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Miscellany
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Case Study
ALL OUR LIVES—our beliefs, our government, our history—changed that day [“The Assassination at 35,” November 1998]. I was thirteen when President Kennedy was killed, and I have always believed it was a conspiracy. After this issue, I don’t. Sis Hoskins Cedar Creek A PRISTINE PRIMER. Remarkable writing, editing, and photo selection. Case closed. Greg Clock …
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Deep in the Heart of Exum
The Exum files: No one questions her drive.
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Scott Joplin
How many years after his death did Scott Joplin win a Pulitzer prize?
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Around the State
Fort Worth and Austin say “Uncle”—Miltie, that is. Plus: The art of rock and roll in Austin; college athletes in the swim in Dallas; an operatic debut in Dallas with a familiar Ring; and a post-war jazz master plays San Antonio. THE MAIN EVENT Must See Mr. TV Dear Milton Berle: Or should I say …
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State Fare
For fans of lamb and rabbit, this dish from Houston’s Tasca is a real meat and greet.
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